NEARING THE NEW SHORE

NEARING THE NEW SHORE

I feel sometimes that I am like one at sea, leaving everything and every one I know here, and that it is not until I get very near the new shore that I shall become weaned from all on the land I have left. I often think of the great happiness of being with the Lord in a perfect scene, but yet the heart has many a link to the old shore, and there is many a remembrance of it. You will find it, however, a great cheer that we are not waiting to be satisfied, like the voyager, until we reach the shore; because, like Stephen, we can have gleams of the heavenly sunshine long before, and many a time before we reach the shore. If the ark of the covenant was the travelling companion of Israel, how much greater is ours — the great antitype. Thus it is that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.